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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 45, 23 October 1913, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

NAVY LEAGUE BANQUET. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received 9.22 a.m.) London, October 22. At the Navy League banquet, Mr Cecil Brassey, proposing the toast of the Imperial Forces, said all knew the assiduous efforts being made to prepare the navy for any call which might arise. ACTIVE IMMIGRATION AGENTS. Booklets concerning Australian immigration, and printed in various languages, have been distributed on the Continent. The German Government has given the Commonwealth authorities a strong hint that it does not want Australian immigration ageiits.

EFFECT OF U.S.A. TARIFF BILL. New York, October 22. The imemdiate result of the passage of the Tariff Bill is the withdrawal of a million dollars’ worth of merchandise from the London warehouses. EX-COVERNOR SULZER. The majority of the inhabitants in the electorate for which ex-Governor Sulzer has been nominated are Jews. The belief is growing that the impeachment may recoil upon Tammany. TIBET AND CHINA. October 22. The Tibetians have demanded that China recognise their complete autonomy. The Chinese Government is painfully surprised at the demand. AIRSHIPS FOR THE NAVY. London, October 22. It is slated in aeronautical circles that airships belonging to the Army will shortly be transferred to the Navy, which will employ them for training purposes. THE BLACK WATCH. Whilst compiling a list of the military manuscripts in the United Service Institute, Colonel Hale discovered complete records of the “Black Watch” (the Royal Highlanders). The records were supposed to have been lost in the wreck of a transport off the coast of Donegal in 1819. A SLAV STATE PLOT. Vienna, October 22. The police at Fiumo assert that they have discovered a plot to form a Slav State under the sovereignty of Servia. with ramifications in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria and I rieste. Many arrests have been made. NOT BLACKMAIL. Paris, October 22. Hie police officers who were accused of blackmail were acqnitetd, the Court considering that the evidence of other police officers was valueless, owing to jealousy existing in the force. FEAR FOR THE FAITH. London, October 22. The Catholic authorities in Dublin are greatly alarmed at the proposal to send a number of strikers’ children to he tended in Ungland, because, possibly, they will not he brought up in the Catholic faith.